Postoperative Hip Precautions After Total Hip Arthroplasty Via the Posterior Approach: A Prospective Randomized Trial

Hip precautions are functional limitations of the hip replacement prescribed to patients for the first six weeks after surgery and are no hip flexion past 90º, no crossing the legs, and no twisting at the waist.

Patients will not be prescribed hip precautions in the first 6 weeks after surgery. The hip precautions that will no longer be prescribed are: no hip flexion past 90º, no crossing the legs, and no twisting at the waist.